Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

Re:Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than by peteri on Monday October 31, 2011 @05:42AM (#3176862)

The CP/M version was a native compiler. The real limitation with the Z80 version was that recursion required either a compile time switch or annotation on the functions (It's so long ago I can't remember)

Somewhere I have a copy of just the editor portion of turbo pascal (from memory it's around 13K) that I snaffled when I worked for Borland in the mid 80s. Sadly no good anymore as 16 bit COM programs won't run on my 64 bit system.

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Re:Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than by cleaver on Monday October 31, 2011 @01:05PM (#3178109)

And it must have made it into another gem from Borland: Sidekick. I used that extensively until I moved entirely off DOS. (Sidekick was a TSR--Terminate and Stay Resident-- utility program that could be launched by hotkey from single-tasking DOS. There was an editor, calculator and ASCII table! IIRC.)

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Re:Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than by rbanffy on Monday October 31, 2011 @06:42AM (#3176959)

I'd have to dig up an emulator, but I think there was no such limitation on the CP/M version.

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Re:Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than by yangyang on Monday October 31, 2011 @08:46AM (#3177186)

> 16 bit COM programs won't run on my 64 bit system

Have you tried DOSBox?

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Re:Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than by peteri on Monday October 31, 2011 @09:43AM (#3177321)

Yep that would work, just a bit pointless except for nostalgia purposes.

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